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For listeners of Room and The Glass Castle, an amazing memoir of 1 woman increasing above an unimaginable child years. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who thought it was their sacred responsibility to carefully turn her in to the ultimate survivor - elevating her in isolation, tyrannizing her child years, and subjecting her to limitless drills designed to "eliminate weakness". Maude learned to hold a power fence for minutes without flinching and also to sit flawlessly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mom sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without high temperature, hot water, adequate food, camaraderie, or almost any affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents cannot rule her interior life. Befriending the pets or animals on the depressed real estate as well as the people in the novels she read in technique, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weakened. So when, after more than a ten years, an outsider managed to permeate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity. By changes horrifying and wonderful, The Only Gal in the World is a tale that will grasp you from the first minute and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of subconscious control that ends with a glorious get away.
